What are some of the sillier things you did as a kid?

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I recall playing in a mud puddle with old dishes and spoons. The mud was semi-liquid, like a thick pudding. My great-grand uncle drove up as I was scooping this “mud pudding” into a bowl, and since it was dark, I pretended it was chocolate pudding. Just to be funny, I ran up to him as he got out of his car, and said, “Hey! Uncle Paul! Would you like some chocolate pudding?”

Of course, he took one look at it and in his usual testy manner, he said, “Get that away from me! That’s MUD!”

Now, Uncle Paul was a bachelor. He never married and never had kids. Children embarrassed him. A different relative might have played along or thought it was funny.

Bless him! Daddy later told me he was one of the most generous and kind of all of our relatives. He would give you the shirt off his back. He just didn’t know how to respond to kids.

To this day, over 60 years later, I vividly remember this.

What were some of the sillier things you did as kids?
 
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I remember a phase I went through at about age 4 where I thought I could mail letters, such as to Santa, by throwing them under the sofa. I have no idea how my mind arrived at that.

I also thought a tiny paint chip in the stairway wall looked like a scary old man in the moon face, and I would stare at it till I scared myself and then cover it with my finger (as it was like a quarter inch big) and then take my finger away and get scared again and cover it back up. The paint chip is still there. Sometimes I visit it for old times’ sake.
 
I had a Barbie doll and wanted more of them. So, I planted her in a dirt pile thinking that would be the way to get more of them…I obviously hadn’t had “the talk” yet! I was very disappointed that all I got was a very dirty, single Barbie doll. 😂
 
Well…don’t think this was silly at the time, but my twin sister and I discovered that we had two holes (our ears) in our heads, and we started putting little gravel rocks in them… 😁 lucky for our Mom discovering our mischief before we filled all our ears…the pebbles had to be removed by the local doctor… 😬 👂 👩 👩‍🦰
 
I was into electricity.
Setting small fires with the arc created by shorting the wires…
At my worst, I could reasonably accurately tell voltage based upon the kick I got from it.

God only knows how I managed to survive childhood.
 
A shoe box and some scraps of cloth make a very good Barbie bed!
 
I remember as younger grade school children, a friend and I used to pretend that styrofoam baseballs were dogs. We would create a chain link leash out of rubberbands and attach them to the styrofoam balls with hairpins. Then we would take the “dogs” out for a walk.
 
When I took my son to an ENT doc for a hearing test, he had an entire display case of “things” removed from kids ears and noses! I don’t think you and sis were alone! 😂😂😂
 
I once jumped into the middle of a dust devil, thinking it would take me for a ride. Instead, it died down to nothing with only a few leaves swirling around in it before they fell to the ground.
 
Oh my! Me too. The moon would follow us home!

I miss being that innocent of the world.
 
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Well…don’t think this was silly at the time, but my twin sister and I discovered that we had two holes (our ears) in our heads, and we started putting little gravel rocks in them… 😁 lucky for our Mom discovering our mischief before we filled all our ears…the pebbles had to be removed by the local doctor… 😬 👂 👩 👩‍🦰
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I remember sitting on my grandparents’ porch steps just past my 4th birthday. I always wanted to please the adults in my life, so I don’t remember why I was miffed, but whatever it was (the devil, maybe?) urged me to stuff as many dried beans up my nose as I could. Of course, the beans began to swell, and I, too, was taken to the dr’s office for their removal. Little kids can do crazy things!
 
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Not something I did, but I used to think the moon was chasing us when we were in the car.
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Lol! So did I! When I was seven, Uncle John and Aunt Mary took me for a two-week visit from Indianapolis to New Haven (which used to lie ten countryside miles east of Fort Wayne, but “civilization” has expanded so that one now must hunt for the New Haven city limits sign). All the roads that we took were only single lane in each direction, with just occasional opportunities for passing, so the trip took more than two hours—and that ol’ man in the moon followed us the entire way! Imagine that! He was winking, too!
 
Here is another incident that I did along with my sis that may not seem silly but then you be the judge…our next door neighbors raised chickens. Baby chicks were all over the yard…my sis and I, don’t remember which of us instigated this, but we got a large galvanized tub from the garage and filled it with chicks…we were mesmerized with them…would carefully touch them and just stare…Mom, once again, came to their rescue… 😊 😌 👩 👩‍🦰 🐥 🐤 🐥 🐤 🐥 🐤
 
I used to like walking along people’s walls by the pavement. It could take one hour to cover the distance of a five minute walk.
 
…for me and my little brother it was tiny colored plastic beads up our noses. The doctor had to remove beads from my brothers twice as he shoved them so far up my Mom couldn’t get them out with tweezers.
 
… oh, way too many to count!

I always wanted a Malibu Barbie (with the dark tan) but I never got her. So I laid my regular Barbies out in the sun on the driveway so they could get a tan. Left them in the hot summer sun all day. Their legs blistered and the plastic started to peel. I was so upset with myself and cried because I was so sorry I did it and even ruined my brand new Barbie.

When I was 3 or 4, I was going to run away, so I went to the kitchen and got a mouth full of water to ‘store’ it in my mouth for later. I started walking down the sidewalk, fully believing I would never return home. I got to the 2nd house down from us and swallowed my water. Realized I was going to be thirsty and hungry… so I returned home. And realized how weird it felt that my Mom never even know I had just ‘run away’.

In Kindergarten during recess we found they had mowed the grass on the other side of the chain-link fence and it made it easy to grab handfuls and pull it through to the playground side. So a little friend and I spent all recess building little bird nests. We absolutely 100% expected a bird to come make a home out of it and lay an egg. I was so excited about my bird nest that that evening I convinced my Dad to take me to the elementary school so I could show him my bird nest. We walked the fence line but my and my friends ‘nests’ were gone. I couldn’t believe it and walked back and forth over and over searching for it. Someone had dismantled them and put the grass piles back over the fence. I cried and cried… and built a new ‘nest’ at home. (Then I stole a chicken egg from our refrigerator, snuck it outside, put in the nest and told my mother a bird laid an egg in it!)
 
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True story. My brother Tony and his buddy, Sonny, decided to dig a hole to China. They were very serious in this pursuit. They had spades and pick axes and a wheelbarrow and everything! So here’s these two kids digging a hole out in the backyard of Sonny’s house in a mid-sized town in the mid-west on a hot late summer day. They start to get real deep - like over their heads deep. The dirt is piling up around them and they keep right on digging. The hole is getting enormous! They’re more than six feet down in this pit they’ve created by their own earnestness when they come across this “stone” that they can’t, for the love of 'em, dislodge try as they might. So my little brother (I suspect that he was about seven at the time) decides to bust the impeding “rock” with a pick ax. He takes a mighty swing and busts a hole in the city’s main water line. All of sudden, water is splurging up like a geyser and these two little boys are scrambling up the sides of the hole they made for all their life as the hole begins to fill itself up with muddy water. They almost drowned. It’s a scene! But, by the grace of God Almighty, they make it to safe ground - exhausted but alive! Their dads got into a heck of mess with the city over their goofy attempt, but, despite the outrageous costs associated with the caper, the two dads had to laugh out loud in spite of it all. The story, as it was told to me by my dad, is that those two kids really almost made it all the way to China, but, unfortunately, they were off by a few yards and they hit the China Sea instead of the mainland. God bless my brother Tony and his buddy Sonny! The bestest and bravest boys in all of America!
 
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